Couldn't have agreed more.It would also be advisable to avoid purchasing hardware from the company that Linus Torvalds has labeled as "the single worst" he has dealt with. Use the search function above to observe the multitude of issues associated with such hardware. (All-Intel hardware should be more or less trouble-free.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2lhwb_OckQ
Additionally, according to a recent report, the fourth generation RDNA graphic processors (RDNA4) are not supposed to be coming out until Q3 2024 but Linux kernel developers are already busy preparing RDNA4 drivers for the future Linux 6.9 release. Please see:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9 ... -New-Stuff
Comparing to Nvidia chips, for which Linux kernel developers have to do extra work--sometimes incur the risk of being unabashedly chastised/trashed for doing an impossible job (as "beautifully" demonstrated in this thread)--to retrospectively reverse engineer many of their unpublished specs, the open-sourced amdgpu driver should be a model for future hardware development. I fully support this model with both my mouth and my pocket book (and my feet). Of course, free software also means that Linux users have the freedom to choose your hardware. But just don't trash Debian developers for not making enough sacrifices. The title of this thread is not only annoying, but nauseating and disgusting.
Also, comparing to the spec-withheld nvidia chips, the prospectively developed amdgpu drivers also mean that Linux kernel developers' feedbacks will greatly help hardware development.
Statistics: Posted by pwzhangzz — 2024-02-20 02:51